| André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri Prince Napoleon 1860 8.70 x 5.30 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland, Presented by Mrs. E. Murray 1991 (PGP 276) LL/7695 Disdéri exploited his close connections with the highest ranks of the French Government to build up a spectacular business, processing at its peak up to 200 sitters a day. Here we see Napoleon I's nephew Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-91), commonly known as Prince Napoleon. He became a pretender to the throne after Napoleon III's only son died in 1879.
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